Declaration of Rights.
That no freeman shall be put to answer any criminal charge but by indictment, presentment, or impeachment.
That no freeman shall be convicted of any crime but by the unanimous verdict of a jury of good and lawful men, in open...

3rd Lt. DeLaunay was from Shelby County and served in Co. I, 38th Tenn. Inf. at Shiloh and other western battles. He kept this album full of autographs of fellow Confederate officers imprisoned in Johnson's Island prison camp in Lake Erie near...

This page in Mitchener's diary shows a drawing of two train cars with "40 Hommes 8 Cheveaux"(40 men 8 horses) written on one of the cars. Mitchener writes,"As you approach the 'Zug' [train] Yards - Spremburg---'Board!' Fifty-six men per car--Hardly...

This page in Mitchener's diary shows the prisoners and guards seeking cover in a trench; several German guards are pictured shooting guns. Mitchener writes, "Near Priebus, second nite out ---C'est le guerre [It's war] - Down the road, rattled a...

This page includes the contact information for Dorothy [June] Krout. Mitchener has only written,"[L.T.] operator Naval [Base] Atlanta, Ga." The other side of the page is blank except for the printer's information, which reads, "Printed by Atar S....

Call to the District Court of the Confederate States of America in Nashville by Clerk Jacob McGavock for N. E. Alloway. Alloway is the garnishee, answering the interrogatories of the Court dealing with property and allegiances. Authorization...

While a prisoner of war in the Nashville, Tennessee Penitentiary, Capt. James H. Polk, Co. E, 6th (1st) Tenn. (Wheeler's) Cav., CSA copied songs in the back of an address book. Among the songs were "Triple Barred Banner" and "The Guerilla's...

Sgt. William Daniel Thompson, Co. I, 46th Tenn. Inf., CSA, kept this diary during the war. He volunteered in Nov. 1861 and was sent to Island No. 10. They were "surrendered up to the enemy" April 8, 1862. He was imprisoned at Camp Butler, Ill.,...

Joshua Barney served in both the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. He was taken prisoner several times and several times exchanged during the Revolutionary War. In the War of 1812 he assembled, outfitted, and manned a flotilla of barges that...

Photographic reprint of Capt. A. Cecil Dale, CSA. Dale was from Celina, Tenn. (near present-day Dale Hollow Dam area). He fought at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain where he was captured. He was imprisoned at Atlanta until the end of the...

These final pages include contact information for four individuals, A. J. Jankura of Cleveland, Ohio; Joe L. Ogan of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Billy Jo [Trice] of Dallas, Texas; and C. Elmer Hicks from Louisville, Kentucky. He has also written, "Ask Olaf...

Tells of one of Morgans men coming, William B. Loyd, by the house to ask to use it as the headquarters for Gen. [Roy S.] Cluke. Darlin' would not consent at all. Loyd asked permission to remain all night-which was granted. Next morning the Col....

This a photocopy of a hand drawn illustration of Barrack No. 36 of Rock Island Prison. It was drawn by Lafayette Lavender for Elijah Wood who was imprisoned there May 10, 1864. Hall served in the 16th Tenn. Cav. Battn., CSA and lived in Morgan Co.,...

Correspondence from John G. Latta to his brother, Samuel R. Latta. The four-page letter mentions John G. Latta's intention to move home to Tennessee. It also mentions that Southern sympathizers are being targeted in New England.

Pvt. McCoy served in Co. G, 2nd East Tenn. Inf. Regt., USA, enlisting in January 1862 in Somerset (Ky.). He was captured in Morgan County, Tenn. In March 1862 and accused of "bridge burning." McCoy was imprisoned in Richmond (Va.) and was paroled...

This page lists one contact name. Mitchener has written, "D. C. Van Weelden/Nyack, N.Y. (30 Mi. N of N.Y. in Hudson Valley). Contact concerning Alaska." The page has a cut-out piece of cardboard with Lt. Mitchener's name on it. In addition to his...

Edmund Hodges had been imprisoned for the bridge burning at Strawberry Plains, Tenn. In this letter, he described the conditions in East Tennessee for Union citizens. He said that some "Rebels who but a few days since took the oath of Aligiance to...